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RIA to Sue P2p File-sharing Users
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pietROxette said on July 4, 2002 14:33:
The Recording Industry Association (RIA) is planning to sue users who are sharing files over the internet, using popular p2p (peer-to-peer) applications such as KaZaA, Morpheus or Imesh.
After forcing Audiogalaxy to filter copyright-protected songs and taking to court several other filesharing netowrks, the RIA is now planning to sue users who are sharing a wide range of files over the Internet. The idea is strongly supported by a number of labels, like Sony Music or Universal, however, Warner Music is agains taking users to court for sharing music files online.
sweet_stalker57 said on July 4, 2002 21:42:
people are taking this whole “internet” thing waayyy to seriously.... sell some junk, look at some pictures, get some pussy and get on with your life!
Ferdan said on July 5, 2002 13:08:
maybe.... but in the other hand you’re not taking it seriously enough...
sweet_stalker57 said on July 6, 2002 08:47:
you should know by now I don’t take anything serious! :)
coyboyusa said on July 7, 2002 00:04:
texchnically they should sue aol time warner as well cos aim is a peer to peer file sharing network as well. whats more urgent is the fact alot of governments want these file sharing proggies closed down cause peopel r trading child pornographie on them
the music thing is a mute issue i think. if i own the cd as long as i am not selling copies of it what is the harm in exposing people to new music.. if it wasnt for peer to peeer networks alot of people in thew worls never would know of hand or gessle or gt...peer to peer has alot of potential if the labels would work with it
carbon_boy said on July 11, 2002 12:24:
Haa-haa!!! Whatever.....how can they sue a couple of million users? Another thing, 4 over 2 decades EVERY1 made copies of cassette’s, etc....(and the RIA/EMI/SONY/METALLICA/EMINEM) never sued the companies who made the bloody blank cassettes! LOL! What a joke.....
frodi said on July 11, 2002 19:03:
I read the leader of a periodical called Dator magazin and he wrote:
“You have to make the burning to the same social status as selling dope or to scare the users not to burn”.
I agree...
Because soon enough nobody will dare to produce any kind of product. Something has to happend!
C ’ya!
pietROxette said on July 11, 2002 21:02:
Blank tape or recordable CD producers cannot be sued. I don’t know how it is in other countries, but here in Hungary if you buy a blank CD, cassette, MD, VHS tape or whatever you can record music on it, you are automatically paying a certain sum of money in a kind of tax. That money goes to an organisation called ARTISJUS, they are to protect the rights of artists in copiright cases or what.
Basically since you pay that tax, you are allowed to make a copy of original recordings you buy. You can make that copy only for yourself, you cannot sell it or make money out of it by any means.
I think it’s a fair solution.
frodi said on July 11, 2002 21:10:
That’s sounds fair Pietro, unfortinally that is put to an improper use by all this greed. I am not saying that I’m either any better nor worse than anyone else - but thats the way it is.
Ferdan said on July 4, 2002 14:38:
Well, it’s stupid... cos ICQ nowadays is also a p2p application.... it’s not used to share those kind of files.... but it could be..... who makes the decisition? the users..... so it’s not software’s fault... it’s users.... and millions of users can’t be take to court so....
Audiogalaxy was different..... it was specially designed to share music.
Those p2p are simple file transfer programs between 2 persons... so.. hmmm well....